Self-adjusting fastener slide



May 10, 1932- D. l. REITER SELF ADJUSTINGFASTENER SLIDE Filed June 23, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR Daniel 1. Peli'er y 1932- D. REITER 1,857,973

SELF ADJUSTING FASTENER SLIDE Filed June 23. 193] 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 fig]! INVENTOR Daniel Z Fer zer p y slide embodying my invention,

Patented May 10, 1932 iisirrsn STA DANIEL I. anrrnn, on NEW YORK, n. Y. J

SELF-ADJUSTING rasrnnnn s'mnn Application filed June 23,

This application is a continuationin part of my co-pending application for patent for pronged fastener slide, Serial No. 513,084, filed February 3rd, 1931.

This invention relates slides and particularly, to that type which is provided with transverse slots for the reception of a'belt or strap, and which carries a snap fastener element designed to engage a cooperating snap fastener element, in order to hold the strap carrying the slide to another article carrying said cooperating element.

My invention contemplates the provision of a simple and efficient slide adapted to be made of sheet metal, and to be readily assembled, and adapted for quantity production economically.

My invention further contemplates the provision of suitably arranged prongs on the slide for engaging the strap on which the slide is mounted, to fix the slide adjustably to the strap, as well as to another member carrying a cooperating snapfastener element. The various objects of my invention will be clear from the description which follows, and from the drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of a pronged and which is substantially self-adjusting.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a rear view of a modified form of my new slide.

Fig. 4c is Fig. 5 is a vertical central same. 1

Fig. 6 is a rear view of another modified form of my new slide.

Fig. 7 is an edge view of the same.

Fig. 8 is a vertical central section of the same.

Fig. 9 is a rear elevation of another modified form of my new slide.

Fig. 10 is a bottom plan view of the same,

an edge view of the same. section of th showing a strap in operative position therein, and showing the socket of the slide engaged by a cooperating stud carried by the article to which the strap is to be removably secure: i

Fig. 11 is a view similar to Fig. 9 of a. porto pronged fastener tion of completion thereof.

Fig. 12 is a rear elevation Serial No. 546,179.

of another modified form ofmy" self-adjusting slide.

Fig. 13 is an edge Fig. 14: is a rear view of the same. elevational view of a slide wherein an auxiliary self-adjusting snap fastener carrying member is provided.

Fig. 15 is a horizontal section of the same,

taken on the line 15-15 Fig. 16 is a vertical of Fig. 14. section of a portion of one of the slide members showing'a resilient combined stud and socket element made integrally therewith,

and adapted to be used in connection with any of the slides illus trated in the previous figures. Flg. 17 1s a similar View,

showing a stud formed integrally with one of the slide members and adapted to of the socket elements viously mentioned.

Fi mem er made integr members and 18 is a similar view,

be substituted for any of the figures preshowing asocket al with one of the slide carrying a resilient stud-en'- gaging ring and similarly adapted to be substituted for the socket elements illustrated in the'remaining figures.

Fig. 19 is a rear elevation of a slide similar to that'of Fig. 3 but showing the auxiliary slide member of less length, whereby the prongs of the auxiliary slide member are normally retracted inwardly from the transverse slots of the main slide member.

Fig. 20 is a view 0 f a slide similar to that of Fig. 6, but wherein the prongs are similarly normally retracted Fig. 21 is a view 0 f a slide similar to that of Fig. 12, wherein the prongs are similarly normally retracted. Figs.'22, 23 and 24: are views of slides similar to those of Figs. 19, 20 and 21 respectively, but showing the auxiliary slides may if desired.

that the prongs. of be entirely omitted,

In the practical embodiments of my inven-' tion which I'have illustrated by way of example,

socket members are illustrated, but

it will be understood that other types of sockets, or a combined socket and stud, or a stud such as those of Figs. 16, 17 and 18 may the main slide of Fig. 9 before the material and is provided gusting movement provided, suitably viewed in Fig.

be substituted if desired, in a manner which will be clear to those skilled in the art. Heferring particularly to Figs 1 and 2, the main slide member is preferably made of sheet with spaced similar transverse slots 41 and 42. The transverse edges of said slots are preferably smooth,con-

tinuous and untoothed, that is, they are preferably unprovided with prongs. The side edge portions 43 of the slotted main slide 40 are folded or bent over "substantially 180 from the remainder of the member into .a position wherein they are spaced from the wide slotted face of the main slide asul'licient distance to form grooves 44, for the reception of the auxiliary slide member 45. A suitable snap fastener element such as the socket wall 46, (or either of the elements of Figs. 16 and 17) is carried by the auxiliary member 45. At their ends, the edge portions 43 are preferably crimped toward the wide slotted face of the member 40 as at 47 substantially to close the grooves 44 at theends thereof, and thereby preventing the auxiliary slide from passing out of said grooves during the adthereof.

Suitable teeth as 48 maybe provided at the ends of the auxiliary slide 45, said teeth being adapted to enter and to grip a strap passed through the slots 41 and 42, to prevent movement of the entire slide relatively to the strap, when the auXili-aryslide member is arranged either in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or'in'that position wherein the toothed left edge of the auxiliary slide overhangs the inner edge ofthe transverse slot 41. As illustrated in Figs. 2 and 18, the socket 46 is integral with the remainder oft-he auxiliary slide member, the material of the central portion of which is pressed out laterally to form an aperture 49. A laterally outstanding annular wall 50. is thereby shaped and proportioned to receive the spring ring 51, and to permit the ring to expand under the pressure of a stud passedtherethrough. 'The material displaced fromthe member to form the wall 50, furthermore, results in the formation of the aperture 52, which is designed for the reception of a-suitable stud as 53, (Fig. 10), such as is well known in the art. Said stud may be secured .to any article or to a strap 54, whereby the strap 55,011 which the main slide member is arranged by the passage of said strap through the apertures 41 and 42, may be removably secured to the member 54, and then adjusted for tension, if desired, by the movement of the main slide member on the belt.

An end of the belt having first been passed upwardly through the slot 41, as 2, and then downwardly through the slot 42, the main slide member 40 may be arranged at the proper position on the belt 55, so that the ring 51 is arranged a closed end 65, said I have illustrated the various approximately coaxially of the stud 53. The stud may then be pressed into the socket, which moves with the auxiliary slide member a sufiicient distance to allow the proper engagement thereof with the stud. The main slide member 40 may then be moved slightly toward the left or right, as may be desired, to cause the auxiliary slide member 45 and the socket carried thereby to move relatively to themain member a sufficient distance, to bring theprongs 48 past the inner edge of either of the transverse slots 41 or 42, and thereby to cause said prongs to enter the strap 55, and to secure the main member on the belt 55 in proper adjusted position. It will be understood that the auxiliary member may first be brought into position, if desired, wherein the prongs enter the belt, and that thereafter the socket may be engaged withthe stud. To release the slide from the belt, rela ve movement of the main slide members 40 and 45 may be reversed, thereby disengaging the prongs from the belt, before or after which the snap fastener elements maybe disengaged from each other.

It will be understood that in connection with the auxiliary slide member 45 and the socket 46 carried thereby, I do not intend to limit myself to the socket 46 and ring 51 carried thereby, but that said auxiliary slide member may carry any suitable snap fastener element as may be desired, and examples of which are shown in Figs. 16 and 17. In Fig. 1 6, I have shown a combined stud and socket 56 which may be made integral with the auxiliary slide member 45 and substituted for the socket 46. The member 56 is pressed laterally from the material of the slide to provide an aperture 57 in said slide and to provide an outstanding wall 58 preferably inwardlybent as at 59 and providing an aperture 60. The wall 58 is made resilient by means of the spaced slits 61 providing resilient fingers between the slits. The bent portion 59 of said wall may resiliently engage a well known cooperating resilient or nonresilient stud passed through the aperture or through the aperture 57, while the outermost surface 62 of said wall 58 may engage any well known resilient or non-resilient socket.

Should it be desired, however, that the auxiliary slide member carry a stud'fastener element, then said element may be made in the form of the integral stud 63 of Fig. 17. wherein an outstanding wall 64 is provided and stud being adapted to enter a resilient socket of any well known construction and carried by the strap or other member 54, to which the strap 55 is to be adjust-ably secured.

In the description of the remaining figures, slide members as carrying sockets, certain of the sockets including resilient rings, but it will be undertral aperture stood that said sockets maybe replaced by other sockets of well known construction, or by the combined stud and socket 56, or by the stud 63, and that since such replacement or substitution is obvious, no further description or showing thereof is necessary.

Referring now to that form of my new slide shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, the main slide member is provided not only with the spaced transverse slots 41. and 42, but also with the longitudinal slots 71 and 72, each arranged between the transverse slots and between the elongated central aperture 7 3 and an edge of said main slide member, and adjacent said edge. The length of the cen- 7 3 is preferably greater than the outermost diameter of the ring 51, but the width of said aperture is less than the outermost, and preferably slightly greater than the innermost, diameter of said ring. It will be seen, therefore, that part of the ring 51 may rest on the face 74 of the main slide 7 O, and may slide thereon as the auxiliary slide member 75 is moved relatively to the main slide member.

In order to allow such movement, said auxiliary slide member 75 is provided with integral side extensions or arms 76 and 77 which are passed through the slots 72 and 71, respectively, and bent over toward the rear face 78 of the main slide member and serve to connect the slide members together. Said extensions 7 6, however, are not pressed into such firm contact with the face 78 as to prevent movement of the auxiliary slide member 75 but are so bent as to provide grooves 79, of such dimensions as to allow movement 0 the main slide member 74therein and asis clearly shown in Fig. 5. Suitable prongsas 80 are provided at the ends of the auxiliary slide member, though it will be understood that said prongs may be entirely omitted as is shown in Fig. 22, in which case the auxiliary slide member is made of somewhat less length than the distance between the inner edges of the slots 41 and 42.

The belt on which the slide, is to be mounted is passed upwardly through the slot 41 as viewed in Fig. 4, and then toward-the right and downwardly through'the slot 42. The main slide member 70 may then be adjusted in its proper position on the belt, and the cooperating stud passed through the aperture 82 of the socket member 83, which is pressed out laterally from the central portion of the auxiliary slide member. On the adjustment of the main slide member 7 O relatively to the belt or relatively to the auxiliary slide member 75. the prongs 80 on the ends of the auxiliary slide enter the belt and maintain the parts in their adjusted positions.

As has been previously explained, the fastener elements 46,58 or 63 may be used to replace the socket 75, if desired. It will be understood that tension on the belt alone stantially from may, if desired, be utilized to cause movement of the auxihary slide relatively to:-the main slide member and thereby to cause the prongs 48 or80 as the case may be, to enter the belt. In this respect, my new slides are self-adjusting. v

As shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, the ends'of the slots 71 may be continued tothe side edges of the mainslide to form recesses 85 in place of the slots 71 and 72.

Similarly, the opening 73 of the main slide member 7 0 of Fig. 3, may be extended longitudinally to meetthe transverse slots 41 and 42 and to form an H-shaped opening 86 in the main slide member 87 of Fig. 6. Otherwise, the form of my invention shown in Figs. 6 to 8 inclusive, is substantially identical with that shownin Figs. 3 to 5 inclusive, and operates in substantially the same manner. It will be understood that the resilient ring 51 contacts with portions 88 of the opening 86, and is at all times retained thereby in the socket member 46, against displacementw p In that form of my invention illustrated in Figs. 9 and 10, the auxiliary slide member 90 and the main slide member 91 are somewhat differently constructed and arranged to avoid the necessity for the use of edge recesses or of slots in the main member and ofside arms in the auxiliary member.

The socket 83 is, however, similar to that previously described in connection with Figs. 3 to 8 inclusive, and is pressed laterally subsurrounding the socket member and constituting the central portion of the member 90,

is of greater width and greater length than the outermost diameter of said socket, and consequently overlaps the edge portions 93 of the central opening 94 in the main slide member 91, said opening being made of a width equal substantially to the median diameter of the ring 51, whereby the ring also overlaps said edges. At each extremity of said portion 92, an integral wall 104 is bent laterally and depends therefrom, and is passed through. the opening 94. Extending from each of thewalls 104 and forming the pronged end portion of the auxiliary slide member, is the terminal member 95, which is of greater transverse width than that of the opening 94, and which terminates in the prongs 96. i

In order to pass tion 95, through the narrower opening 94, I prefer to displace some material temporarithe longitudinal edge I the central portion of the auxiliary slide member 90. The material 92 the wider pro-nged por- I ly from the edges 92 m order temporarily to widen said opening. Ihis'I do, by making a pair of parallel cuts as 97, 98, at substantially right angles to the longitudinal edges of said opening 94 11) and then'bend- -on the opposite edge material between th placed llaterally. A

the opening her.

"her is firstzbent in the form .end being then passed through the openings 100,

'tion 92 of the explained in connection with Cf: I

Similar cutslare made of theopening 9.4 and cuts j97.and98 and the cuts .is similarly diswidened opening 100 is thereby provided of greater width than main slide member.

malignment with the that of the terminal portion 35, so that said portion when continuousor lying 1n the same plane .with the wall 94 may be passed through and throughthe main mem- In other words, the auxiliary slide memof a U, with the portions 95 upstanding, said portions whereaft-er the end portions 95 are bent toward anddown upon the rear face 101 of the main slide member. The" upstanding displacedmaterial199 betweenthe cuts 97 and 98, maythen be bentback into the plane of the remainder of the mainslide member, whereby the auxiliary slide member becomes permanently but slidably arranged in the open ing 94, which is longer'than the central porauxiliary. member. It will be understood that the auxiliary slide member may be moved in the opening 94 until the wall104 engages either of the transverse ends ofthe openingsfid. Such movement may be accomplished manually, or automatically by tension of the strap, as has been previously the forms of Figs. 11:0 8 inclusive.

Referring to Figs. 12 and 13, the main slide member is provided not only with the transverse slots 41 and :42, but with a pair of similar but smaller transverse slots 111 and .112 arranged between the slots 41 and 42, and substantially symmetrically about the transverse center line of-said main slide member. Between the slots 111 and 112 is also provided an opening 113 of sufficient width and length to allow the passage of a stud into engagement with the socket 83and the ring 51 carried thereby, but the widthof which is substantially the median diameter of the ring, whereby the part of the ringis supportedby the edges adjacent the opening 113.

Said socket 83 is pressed outwardly and laterally from the central portion of the substantially rectangular auxiliary slide memher 114. Near its ends, the member 114 is provided with the projecting arms 115, 116, which are passer respectively through the slots 111 and .112, and bent toward the rear face 117 of the main member 110.-

Formed from the material of and extending from said arms and 116, are the prongs 118, 119, respectively. It will be seen that the auxiliary slide member is adapted to move in the slots 111 and 112 to a sufiicient prongsto engage a strap cation of tension to the strap, and to adjust the socket 83 in the shown in Figs. 3 to 5 inclusive.

similar slide beyond the slots 41, d2 in the normal position plate 184:, being bent toward of such lengththat they enter proper position to be engaged by a cooperating stud on another member.

Fig. 19 represents a slide similar to that the auxiliary slide member is made .of such length that the prongs 80 thereof do not normally extend beyond the slots 41, 42, said prongs engaging the strap passed through said slots only on movement thereof relatively to the main slide member when the strap is pulled-or theauxiliary slide is otherwise adjusted.

Similarly, the prongs of the slide member of :Fig. 20 extend a less distance thanthose of the similar slide shown inFigs. 6 to 8 in- :clusive. Similarly, .in Fig. 21, the prongs have been shortened as compared with the ofFig; 12, so as not to extend of the auxiliary slide member.

In Fig. 22, my improved slide is shown with the prongs 80 of Fig. 19 omitted. In place of saidprongs, I have shown laterally outstanding out from the material of the opening 7 3 and adapted to engage a belt passed through the slots 41, 42. This form of my new slide is otherwise identical with that shown in Fig.

19; Even the prongs 130, 131, may be omitted, howevemitt desired, :and the strap and slide maintained in their relative adjusted positions by'the friction developed between the strap and slideand the slide parts.

The slide shown in Fig. 23 is identical with that shownin Fig. 20 except that the prongs .on'the auxiliary slidehave been omitted. The slide of Fig. 24 is similarly identical with that of Fig. 21,:excepting that the prongs on the auxiliary'slide have also been omitted.

Inthat formof my invention illustrated inFig s. '14 and 15, the main slide member is provided with spaced longitudinal slots and 181, 01 suflicient width to receive the bent pro ecting side arms 182 and 183 respectively, and of suiiicient lengthto permit longitudinal sliding of said arms therein. Themember 170 is also provided with a suitable opening ISOarI-anged between the slots of said member to permit movement of the M Said arms member or the rear face of the main slide member 170 after having been. passed through the longitudinal slots.

It will be understood that suitable prongs as 185 may project from theends of the auxiliary slide member toward the transverse slots 41 and 4:2, and that said prongs may be said slots and enter a strap which has been passed through said'transverse slots to hold the strap in place. It will also be understood that the prongs may be omitted, if'desired, as will be clear without'further explanation. The auxiliary auxiliary slide member therein. extend from the auxiliary slide However,

prongs 130, 131, which arebent slide member 184 carries the socket member 186, being provided for that purpose with a series of spaced and preferably circularly aligned apertures 187 similar to the apertures 17 2. Said auxiliary slide member is also provided with a central stud receiving aperture 188 arranged inwardly of and :oncentrically within the spaced apertures 187.

The socket member 186 is provided with an upright wall terminating in resilient fingers 17 6 spaced apart b the slots 177. The

lugs or prongs 17 5 project from the bottom.

of the wall and are passed through tl e spaced slots or apertures 187, and bent onto the rear face of the auxiliary slide member 184. It will be understood that the slide may be adjusted on a strap which has been passed through the slots a1 and 42 to the proper position, whereafter the cooperating stu may be passed through the socket member 186. The socket member may then be moved by tensioning the strap or it may viously been moved, in the proper to cause one of the prongs 185 to enter the strap in a manner which has been previously described.

It will be seen that I have provided simple and efficient means for securing a strap in its proper adjusted position bymeans of a snap fastener element, that said means is selfadjusting on tension applied to the strap, and also manually adjustable if desired, that it can be economically produced in large quantities, and that I have produced structure well designed to meet the severe requirements of ractical use.

While I have shown and'described certain specific embodiments ofmy invention, it will be understood that I do not intend to limit myself thereto but intend to claimrmy invention as broadly as may be permitted by the state of the prior art and the scope o the appended claims. 7

I claim:

1. In a fastener slide, a slotted main slide member adapted to have a strap passed through the slots thereof and having a central aperture therein for the passage of a stud, an auxilliary slide member in the form of a substantially rectangular sheet metal plate, a snap fastener socket carried by the auxiliary member and adapted to engage a cooperating snap fastener stud passe through the aperture, said socket being arranged wholly on one side of the plate, and means for attaching the auxiliary member to the main member and permitting relative longitudinal movement therebetween, whereby the first-mentioned fastener element may be adjusted relatively to the main slide member.

2. In a fastener slide, a sheet metal main slide member provided with spaced trans verse slots adapted to receive a strap, and with an aperture between the slots, a plate have pre- (111130111011 f by the auxiliary member.

member having a central aperture connected to the main slide member for movement rela tively thereto cooperating means on 831d members for slidably'securing the members together against separation, and an apertm'ed snap fastener element fixed to the plate member and projecting therefrom in a direction away from the main member and adapted to engage a cooperating snap fastener element passed through the aperture of the main mrmbeiz.

8. In a. fastener slide, a flat sheet metal main slide member, provided with a pair of substantially rectangular belt-receiving slots, an auxiliary slide member of rectangular outline adapted to move longitudinally relatively to the main slide member, cooperating means on said members for slidably securing the members together against separation, and a snap fastener element including yieldable parts fixed to the auxiliary member.

l. In a fastener slide, a main slide member provided with spaced recesses, an auxiliary slide member arranged on one of the faces of the main member, arms on said auxiliary member passing through said recesses and bent toward each other and adjacent the other face of the main member, said arms being of less width than that of said recesses to permit movement of, said arms in said recesses, and a snap fastener element carried by the auxiliary member.

5. In a fastener slide, a main slide member of rectangular outline and formed of flat sheet metal, an auxiliary slide member on a single piece of sheet metal and of rectangular outline connected to and adapted to move longitudinally relatively to the main slide member, cooperating means on said members for preventing separation thereof, and a socket including a yieldable element carried 6. In a fastener slide, a sheet metal member having spaced transverse'slots of substantiale ly rectangular outline adapted to have a strap passed therethrough, a second member of re'ctangular outline and of a single piece of sheet metal slidable on the slotted member and a resilient socket on the second member, said first-mentioned member having an opening therein adjacent of a stud passed into the socket. I

7.. Ina fastener slide, a main slide member formedof a piece of sheet material and having a substantially centrally arranged opening therein, an auxiliary slide member adjustable longitudinally with respect to the main slide member, opposed arms integral with the auxiliary member extending from one face to the main member to the other face thereof and bent toward said other face to enclose a portion of said main member and the socket for the reception I tangular main slide member having spaced transverse slots therein, an auxiliary platelilre substantially rectangular sl1de member arranged on one face of the maln member,

. prongs on said auxiliary member adapted to engage a strap passed through the transverse slots on therelative movements of said members means forming part of said members for movably securing said members together against separation, and a fastener element on one face of the main the auxiliary member maintained by the auxiliary member in spaced relation to the main member at all times.

9. In a fastener slide, a main slide member havingspaced transverse slots therein adapted to receive a strap, and having a longitudinally elongated opening, a pronged auxiliary member of rectangular outline and o a single piece of sheet metal, adapted to be moved longitudinally only of the main prongs thereof into a member to carry the strap passed throughfs'aid slots, and a fastener element fixed fastener element having ranged in the opening.

10. In a fastener ber having a pair of spaced transverse slots therein for the reception of a strap and havpart thereof aring a sccond'pair of longitudinal slots between the transverse slots and each arranged adjacent one edge of the member and having an elongated centrally arranged opening between all of said slots, an auxiliary slide on member and having a wall of a fastener element pressed and outstanding laterally therefrom, and a pair of oppositely disposed arms extending from the edges of said auxiliary member through the longitudinal slots and bent inwardly toward the 'Oth'erface of the main member.

11, In a fastener slide, a main member of sheet metal having a pair of spaced transverse belt-receiving slots therein, and a l'0ngitudinal'ly elongated central opening therehaving a pair of spaced transverse 111, an auxiliary slide on one face ofthe main member, a pair of oppositely disposed arms passed throughthe main member from said face to the other face and bent inwardly toward the other face of the main member to provide a groove for slidably receiving part of the main member, and a fastener element carried bythe auxiliary member.

12. In a fastener slide, a main slide member openings therein andhaving a similar pair of openings arranged inwardly of the first-mentioned spaced transverse openings, an auxiliary slide o'n'one face of the main member, said slide having end arms extending through; t-l- 1;e-in wardly arranged transverse. slotsand bent to the auxiliary me1n-' ber and ada Jted to en a e a coo eratin sna 3 slide, a. main. slide mem therein and having an intermediate openingof less width than that of said transverse openings arranged between said transverse openings, an auxiliary slide member having a central port-ion of greater width than said intermediate opening arranged on one face of the main member, an inner depending wall extending from said portion and of less width than that of said intermediate opening pass ing through said intermediate opening and terminating in a portion arranged on the other face of the main member and of greater width than that of said intermediate opening, and a fastener element carried by said central portion. 7

14. In a fastener slide, a main slide member having spaced transverse slots therein and provided with asubstantiallycentral opening between the slots and with spaced additional slots between the transverse slots and the central opening, and a socket carrying member independent of the main slide member and provided with spaced lugs passed through the additional slots and bent on to the slide member to hold the socket carrying member to the slide member.

15. In a fastener slide, a sheet metal member, having a pair of spaced transverse slots therein,and having the edge portions thereof fold-ed edge portions and the remainder of the'slide Inember,-a-nd a slidable support for a fastener element arranged to slide in the and comprising asheet metal member having an aperture therethrough, strap-engaging teeth on said support, and a fastener element having one end passed through the aperture and flanged outwardly on to one face of said support.

16; In a fastener slide, a slotted member having a pair of spaced transverse slots therein, and providedwith edge grooves, and aslidable member slidable and provided with strap-engaging teeth, and asnap fastener element carried by said slidabl'e member,

17. In a fastener slide, a main slide member, an auxiliary member independent of the main slide member, a fastener element carried by the auxiliary member, and means for slidably securing said members together, comprising bent portions projecting from the auxiliary-member and through the main slide member and bent-on to theremote face of said" main member.

18. In a-fastener slide, a main slide meme ber formed of a substantially rectangular flat sheet: ofnet'all and provided with a pair to provide a groove between said 2 groove in said groovesits fee

each;- arranged adjacent an end of themember, a substantially rectangular plate-like auxiliary slide member of less width than that of the main slide member, opposed bent arms each similar to the other and integral With one of said members, each of said arms being bent into parallel spaced relation to a face of the member from Which it is bent to provide a space between said arms and the remainder of said member for the reception of a part of the other member, said space being of greater depth than the thickness of said part said part of the other member being arranged in said space, and a snap fastener element carried by the auxiliary member and movable therewith relatively to the main member on the movement of said part of the other member in said space, and means for preventing the separation of said main member and the auxiliary member.

19. In a fastener slide, a main slide member provided With spaced transverse slots adapted to have a strap passed therethrough, an auxiliary slide member cooperating means on said members for slidably securing said members together including a peripheral portion on one of said members of the same thickness as the remainder of the member bent into parallel spaced relation to the remainder of said member to provide a groove between the bent portion and the remainder of the member, a portion on the other member being arranged in said groove and slidable therein, and a snap fastener socket element on the auxiliary member including a sprlng rlng.

DANIEL I. REITER. 

